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St. Barbara
81; "patron saint of artillery men"

St. Cosmo, Randolph
24; Ship Commander of The Inconvenience

St. Masque
108; Indian Ocean island; volcano, 109;

St. Paul
107; Indian Ocean island

Saint-Saën, Camille
27; his "wonderful 'Bacchanale'"; from his opera "Samson and Delila which premiered in Weimar, Germany on December 2, 1877;

Salisbury, Lord (1830-1903)
58; Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, known as Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and as Viscount Cranborne from 1865 until 1868, was a British statesman and Prime Minister on three occasions, for a total of over 13 years; Wikipedia entry

San Miguel County
80; where Merle Rideout and Dally lived, in Colorado

sap-head
7; a fool: a person who lacks good judgment

Saratoga chips
39;

Schiff
131;

Schmidt, Chief
59; Cleveland cop

Scioto
66;

Scorcher cap
42;

scuttlebutt
3; The origin of the word scuttlebutt which is nautical parlance for a rumor, comes from a combination of scuttle - to make a hole in the ship's side causing her to sink - and butt - a cask or hogshead used in the days of wooden ships to hold drinking water; thus the term scuttlebutt means a cask with a hole in it. Scuttle; describes what most rumors accomplish if not to the ship, at least to morale. (from The Goat Locker Website)

Self-reference
117; "my harmless little intraterrestrial scherzo"

Sentience
177;

Sentient Rocksters
133; 149;

Seven Sisters
159;

Siege of Paris
19;

Sigurd, King
127;

Sillery
162; drinking;

89; repeal of in 1893, 89; President Cleveland, convinced that the Sherman Silver Act, passed in 1890, was the cause of the drain on the U.S. gold reserves, called a special session of congress and convinced them to repeal the Act. Read more...; Wikipedia entry

Ball Lightning

73; sentient ball lightning; Ball lightning reportedly takes the form of a short-lived, glowing, floating object often the size and shape of a basketball, but it can also be golf ball sized or smaller. It is sometimes associated with thunderstorms, but unlike lightning flashes arcing between two points, which last a small fraction of a second, ball lightning reportedly lasts many seconds. There have been some reports of production of a similar phenomenon in the laboratory, but some still disagree on whether it is a real phenomenon; Wikipedia entry

sky-dogs
14; canines who rode in the airships

Sloane laboratory
29;

"Smegmo"
407; "an artificial substitute for everything in the edible-fat category, including margarine"

Snidell, Burt
75; former husband of Erlys

Socialism
32;

Somble, Strool & Fleshway
34;

South Seas Pavilion
26; at the Chicago World's Fair

Stockmen's Hotel
31;

straw "skimmer"
13; straw hat with a narrow brim, popular boating hat during the 1890's

Suckling, Darby
3; the baby of the Inconvenience crew who serves "as both factotum and mascotte"; 109-110;

Sue, Marie Eugène (1804-1857)
125; a roman-feuilleton by; M. Eugène Sue was a French novelist, born in Paris. A feuilleton (a diminutive of French feuillet, the leaf of a book) was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers. A roman-feuilleton is a serialized novel;